: Problem is when you make something legal you have to even bother to distinguish. At least when it's illegal it's all irresponsible. You wouldn't believe the rumors that as a college student I'm constantly overhearing about pot. Most people think it has no ill effect on motor coordination, etc.SDF: What's "all irresponsible"? I would imagine that hemp-smokers are not "responsible" to American laws punishing people for possession of the substance, but besides that? People are basically responsible for their own well-being, and this involves both drug use and drug abuse. So what is it that's "all irresponsible"? The community you hang out with? Is it the only community in the world that has discovered self-medication?
: I just don't know. It feels as if it's my personal responsibility to protect myself and my loved ones from harm coming to them, only by endorsing the legalization of drugs, even "harmless" ones like pot, I take the power away from myself and hand it over to people who might abuse it.
SDF: You actually have the power to protect people? From what? And how? And what does this have to do with how people medicate themselves? Relate this to your actual role as a human being, not the one you appear to be imagining for yourself.
: I openly condemn anyone who can't use recreational substances responsibly. But I'd deny the right of every user to use pot if even one of them took out some innocent kid while behind the wheel.
SDF: I see, and if automobile drivers kill when they have road rage, would you illegalize that too? It's an awfully naive perspective, to assume that YOU have the power to deny OTHERS rights, that is, unless you really ARE the guy behind global US enforcement of the War on Drugs. And I kind of doubt that. You are a college student? Or is that your "cover" for the greater power you in fact hold? Come on, Cynic. Power relations in the real world don't give you the power to deny others rights, not unless you really have that power.
: A few rotten apples do spoil the barrel.
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: McSpotlight: Would you do the same for alcohol?
SDF: "The government should re-institute Prohibition and allow booze to be monopolized by organized crime, because one drunk driver could kill." Would it change reality for the better if we held this opinion? Or would another opinion make for a better world, something perhaps like "people should be taught how to use drugs responsibly"?
